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 === General Guidance/Suggestions ===
-The following conditions are not required:
+The following conditions are not required, but teams should undertake due diligence to propose a Service Area that:
-# PBEM recommends that most of the Service Area be inside City of Portland city limits.
+# Is mostly inside City of Portland city limits.
-# Optimally, a Service Area includes one BEECN and one fire station.
+# Includes at least one BEECN and one fire station.
-# PBEM prefers and recommends square/rectangular-shaped Service Areas with four sides (they are significantly easier to process on mapping tools). PBEM will reject [https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/the-most-peculiarly-gerrymandered-districts highly gerrymandered] Service Areas.
+# Is square/rectangular-shaped with four sides (they are significantly easier to process on mapping tools). This will difficult to avoid for some teams that abut freeways or waterways. Nonetheless, PBEM will reject [https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/the-most-peculiarly-gerrymandered-districts highly gerrymandered] Service Areas.
+=== Considerations ===
+# Does the team have the resources to conduct operations safely and effectively inside the proposed Service Area?